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I have mentioned one situation for the de- velopment of curiosity. I hope that next year someone will give us a better situa- tionfor ib development, and some other men will give us chemical situations for the de-

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velopment of some other original tendencies. When we get all these situations worked out from a chemical standpoint we can tell what situation to put up to get a certain response from a given original tendency just as the chemist, knows that he will get a certain re- action from a given element when he subjects i t to a certain situation or condition.

When we all have gone back to the student and begun to develop the teaching of chemis- try on original tendencies, the teaching of chemistry will become a science, and nothing will hasten that day more than meeting to- gether in a n , open forum as we have done this week. It is a pity that the teaching of chemistry is not recognized fully as a profes- sion, but no one is a t fault but ourselves. Let US becqme worthy of the profession by studying the teaching of chemistry in a sci-entific way, and then people will not hesi-tate to give the caIling of teaching chemis- try a proper place and the college professor a living wage.

NEILE. GORDON UNIVERSITYOF MARYLAND,

COLLEGE MD.PARK,

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS EARL JEROME GRIMES

THE executive committee of tho Associa- tion of Virginia Biologists has adopted the following minute :

The executive committee of the Asswiatian of Virginia Biologists has heard with deep regret of the death of Earl Jerome Grimes, asmiate pmfes- sor of biology in the Cdlege of William and Mary. Less than a month ago he was present in our fall meeting and contributed largely to its success. By his death the College of William and Mary has been deprived of a faithful and inspiring teacher; this association of a valued member and counselor; and the science of botany of a young disciple of great promise. To his family and to his college we wish to express our mod heartfelt sympathy in their great loss.

T h i minute we instruct the secretary to qread 0" rt?~ordsof the amciation, to have published in SCIENCE, ma to ~0-uni~ate it to Mrs. Grime8 and to the faculty of ithe College of William and Mary.

ELECTRIC POWER MAPS

A MAP of New Yo& State. showing the lo-cation of the power stations and elmtrical transmission lines used by public ut;ility com- panies has been published by the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. It was originally planned to pub-lish these maps as plates in water-supply pa- pers, which were also to contain tabular in- formation in regard to the equipment of the power stations and the chief characteristics of the transmission lines, but to avoid the expense and delay incident to the publication of such reports the maps will be issued sep- arately and sold. The map of New Pork State is the first one to be published and may be bought for one dollar from the director of the Unitcd States Geological Survey a t Wash- ington. The base map used is the Geological Survey's map of the state, 64 inches long and 45 inches wide, scale 1:500,000. The map shows the location of the stations and pri- mary transmission lines and bears a num-bered list of $he power companies, the num- bers corresponding to numbers assigned to the stations on the map. Proof maps were first made and sections of them were sent to the companies for correction or revision. Similar maps of New Hampshire, V?rmont, Massa-chusetts, Connecticu% Rhode Island, Naine, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware are in course of preparation. These maps will be valuable to those who are studying interconnection of power companies and to those who wish to establish manufac- turing plants within reach of electric power- in fact, they will be useful to any one con- templating the use of power in any way.

MEDALS O F T H E ROYAL SOCIETY

AT the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on November 30, Professor Sherring- ton presented the medals (we quote from Naturs) as follows: The Copley medal to

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Sir Joseph Larmor, who has long held a lead- ing position in the British school of mathe- matical physics. I t may fairly be said that his 'preliminary work was of the utmost value in paving the way to the modern develop-menrts of the theory of relativity. A Royal medal to Dr. Frederick Frost Blackman, dis- tinguished for his contributions to plalit phys- iology, and especially to knowledge of the process of photo-synthetic assimilation of carbon dioxide. A Royal medal to Sir Frank Dyson, who has devoted special attention t3 investigations of the movements and distances of the stars and of the bearing of these upon the structure of the stellar universe. It was mainly to his foresight and organizing ability that we owe the successful observations of ;the deflection of light by the sun's gravita-tional field during the eclipse of 1919. The Davy medal to Prof. Phillipe Auguste Guye, in recognition of his work on optically active organic substances, on molecular association, and on atomic weights. The Hughes medal to Prof. Niels Bohr, the author of the con- ception to which the name "Bohr-atom " has been attached. This conception gave a solu-tion of the long-standing puzzle of the Balmer series of hydrogen, and appears likely to pro- vide a complete explanation of the spectra of the various elements.

SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

DR. L. 0.HOWARD,chief of the Division of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agri- culture, gave at Toronto on the evening of December 21 ithe address of the retiring presi- dent of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which is printed in the present issue of SCIENCE. We hope to print in subsequent issues the addresses of the chairmen of the sections and other ad-dresses and proceedings that are of general interest.

AT the last meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science held at Indianapolis, Indiana, Dec. 1 and 2, 1921, the following officers were elected:

President: F. M. Andrews, Indiana University.

Vice-president :C. A. Behrens, Purdue Univer- sity.

Secretary: W. N. Hess, De Pauw Univemity. Assistant Secretary: H. T. Dietz, Indianapolis,

Indiana. Treasurer: W. M. Blanchard, De Pauw Univer-

sity. Ed i t o r : F. Payne, Indiana University. Press Secretary: F. B. Wade, Shortridge High

School, Indianapolis, Indiana.

THE recent election of the Optical Society of America resulted in the choice of the follow- ing officers for terms beginning January 1, 1922:

President (2 year term): Leonard T. Troland, Harvard University.

Vice-president (2 year term) : Herbert E. Ives, Western Electric Company, New Pork.

Secretary (5 year term) : Irwin G. Priest, National Bureau of Standards.

Treasurer (5 year term) : Adolph Lomb, Baugh and Lomb.

Members of the Eaecutive Council ( 2 year term) : Adelbent Ame-s, Jx.,Dartmouth College, W. E. For- sythe, Nela Research Laboratories, Henry G. Gale, University of Chicago, Ernest Merritt, Cornell Uni- versity.

The retiring president, Professor J. P. C. Southall and all of the above-named officers are ex-officio members of the Executive Council.

AT its 1921 meeting a t New Orleans, the American Pharmaceutical Association awarded the 1921-22 grant from the A. Ph. A. Research Fund to Dr. David I.Macht, of the Johns Rop- kins University, for pharmacological work on the benzyl compounds found in certain galen- icals. The first grant made in 1919 was awarded to Dr. George D. Beal, of the Univer- sity of Illinois, for work on alkaloidal assays, while the 1920 award was made jointly to Dr. Herber W. Youngken, of the Philadelphia Col- lege of Pharmacy and Sciences, for work on aconite varieties and Dr. E. Kremers and Miss Lila Winkelblech, of the school of pharmacy of the University of Wisconsin, for work on derivatives of guaiacol.

R. L. AGASSIZ,of Boston, was eleated presi- dent of the Copper and Brass Research As-